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Speak No Evil
It is elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Uzodinma Iweala
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Playing in the Light
A very sharply observed, brilliant, beautiful novel about life in postapartheid South Africa. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Zoë Wicomb
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Doctor Zhivago
I also loved [this book]. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Boris Pasternak
3
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Cuz
Unbearably moving. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Danielle S. Allen
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Naked Lunch
A book I consider grossly overrated. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
William S. Burroughs
2
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The Remains of the Day
A stunning book. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Kazuo Ishiguro
3
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Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
This is a humourous, irreverent and unabashedly political novel. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ahmadou Kourouma
1
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Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
It is so atmospheric, so hauntingly described, that the reader never quite emerges from the book. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
John Gregory Brown
1
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Enid Blyton Famous Five Series
I was entranced by the children who had these wonderful adventures and who were always magically at the right place at the right time. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Enid Blyton
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The Color Purple
I admired the fierce honesty in the single-mindedly feminist world-view of this book. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Alice Walker
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
I think it’s glorious. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Arrow of God
Complex and funny and interesting. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chinua Achebe
1
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The Female Persuasion
A page-turner that succeeds both at character and ideas. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Meg Wolitzer
1
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Fine Boys
Made me laugh. It’s a brilliant novel about contemporary Nigeria. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Eghosa Imasuen
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Anil's Ghost
Made me cry. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Michael Ondaatje
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Moby Dick
The classic I am supposed to have read but have had difficulty getting past the first page. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Herman Melville
6
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Things Fall Apart
[The author's] classic. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chinua Achebe
4
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Fathers and Sons
I loved this book as a teenager and have never forgotten how completely absorbed I was by [the author's] wonderfully evocative world. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ivan Turgenev
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The Unwinding
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recommended this book in an EW interview.
George Packer
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